Quotes About Identity

Not a lot of people get to say, 'I'm a cartoon character.'

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

I do want to carry on my dad's legacy, but I also want to carve out my own path. I have to work harder, I think, just because I do have that last name. I don't want people to think that's why I am where I am in this industry. I put in the time, and I want to be just as good as my dad was.

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

It's important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it's super great.

In my case, I'm kind of set in my ways, I love to be me.

My name is Dylan simply because my parents did not know before I was born if I would be a boy or a girl, and Dylan was a name that worked in both cases.

I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy.

The 'cash me ousside' girl isn't even a person. She doesn't exist.

I didn't have a lot of cash... but in my mind I looked like Lenny Kravitz!

Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.

I was always cast doing something athletic. I can't do a cartwheel.

I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

I always wonder why people cast me in anything.

It has become impossible for India to talk about caste with any candour.

When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.

I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.

If a casting breakdown said 'All-American Type' or 'Lead Role,' I knew they weren't thinking of me.